Word: guess
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Guess Gilligan wasn't at the RPI game...
Some inquiring mind has put a slip among the "Notes and Queries," in the Library, asking: "How many men at Harvard are in favor of prohibition? If you don't know, guess." There are several answers, denoting a varied process of guesswork: 96 per cent.; 2 per cent.; 47 per cent.; 53 per cent.; 90 per cent.; 10 per cent.; 66 2-3 per cent.; 33 1-3 per cent.; 0 per cent.; 1-5 per cent, and 1-100 per cent...
...scale is treated in such a cursory review. One column instead of four would reduce the exaggerated proportions of this part of the table. The author claims that over two-thirds majority of each class spend from $810 to $1,410; but this evidently a mere guess based upon data altogether insufficient. Professor Palmer's much more trustworthy calculation places nearly one-half of each class below the limit of $800. Moreover the author does not treat consistently the material he has actually collected, for he states near the beginning of his article that he has made the highest grade...
...conference committee augurs rather ill for the student side. The question is at present, so far as I know, not practical; that is, no proposition of change is likely to arise in the faculty. What would be the fate of any proposition arising from the students? I cannot even guess. Very likely we are well enough...
...reported that Beecher kept very silent during Saturday's game, but at the finish remarked, "I guess we can beat those fellows on Thanksgiving...